A reply to Dr. Gray's three answers to a written paper : entitled Mr. Worger's case / by Christopher Packe.

  • Packe, Christopher, 1686-1749
Date:
1727
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Credit: A reply to Dr. Gray's three answers to a written paper : entitled Mr. Worger's case / by Christopher Packe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tliat is brought upon us by external Violence : Nay even the $ Pally itfelf which theDr. fo much infifts upon among his a Prognofticks,often is, and in this Cafe was but: a Ruling Symptom ariling from the lame Gaufe. One would think, that nothing but Blindnefs itfelf fliould not fee the Foundation of my Opinion. Is it the Fall or the Giddinefs, with which he had been frequently troubled ? No — It is the b Great Diflentm of the Veffels all over the c Pi a mater and brain itfelf \ It is the Influx of the Serum into the Ventricles of the Brain, upon which I build my Opinion : Now thele were Arguments that I could not ufe till Mr. Durant had fur« nlfh’d me with them from the View of Mr. Worge/s Head after his Death, and which for that Rea (on can by no means prove that I confider’d the Patient as any other than a fallen Perfon, ^when I preferib’d that Bolus. But I muff add, if thefe Difeoveries will not Clafs the Diftemper in De¬ bate among Lethargies or Apoplexies (with or without Concuffion, it is of no moment to my prefent Argument) they muft ceafe to be Diftirgurfhirg Marks of any Diftemper, and at leaft one half of the Diforders of the Head muff be happily difeharg’d from the Catalogue of Difeafes, and my Bolus for Falls muft be given only to filch as can fund upon their Legs. As to the Concuffion itfelf I have already ipoken d to it, and made it ap¬ pear from the Want of external Signs, that the Dr. is likely to be greatly miffcaken about the Violence of it, I fhai! only remark in this Place, that if it had been lo Prodigious and Violent as the Dr. urges, Mr. Durant’s ac¬ count muft have oblig’d him with better Realons for his Opinion, than ei¬ ther fiuxum fpirituum ; haec eft multiplex, & Referenda eft ad onuies eas quee comprimunt cerebrum Interne externrve i* Frattur<e, Xmprc iTiones, Comprejfiwes Cranii, ETMULLEHl Collegium Pratt* fed. 4. cap. 1 Spirituum enim mot us deficit ex Potorum conniventia, cujus ouajiones poflunt prove nit-e, a Contufisne, Cornugiom Capitij Apoplcxi® cai fie antecedentes fqux fubinde Procararticae exiftunt) funt Contufiones & Cm* cuffiones Cerebri, t am turn, quam SINE MANIFEST A LJESIONE* Ibidem, paffim per tot um Caput. FORF.ESTUS, fupra ttpopte&hos varies a PeYcvjfmt. Scholia fuper obfervat. 76, lib. io, Tom 2, Apoplexise ex Csntufione, Cafu, Idu, Vulnere, non Obfcura eftfanationls Ratio. G/ELIUS AURELIASUS, lib. 3, cap. Caafa Apoplex ice item Vulmratio a Membrane.in pueris vehemens b faltns Mcmbianse Cerebri.Notx ttusman in ]ocum,a Meningis quee cerebrum tegir, ab b Idu Caff* Hippocrates, tho* he ro where diredly calls a Concu/fion an Apoplexy, as I can find, yet all over the fecond Book de attributes the Symptoms which he aferibes to Coneuffions, fuch as tbe Ids ot1 S.nfc, Morion, Sopor, Sec. to the Attcm-id, Syderatis or Apopledick perfon s. f PITCAIRN, lib. 2,, cap. ^ de Pardyfi. Paralyfis eft morbus Apoplexiee Congener j oritur tertio » Compreffione externa per tumores, Cafusi Luxatione?3 Comujfimes & lira ilia. ibid,. .a F. A. ii5 b M S icf q The under Membrane of the Brain. d Remark $7